Unfortunately, he’d probably just get recruited by the Creation Museum (as they claim dinosaurs were created 6,000 years ago and would hang out eating plants in Eden).
Unless he grew feathers. They hate the concept of dinosaurs with feathers for some reason.
Because dinosaurs having feathers strengthens their relationship with birds and strengthens the argument that one evolved into the other. They hate the E word.
Purely FWIW, I’m increasingly sure that the Ornithiscian dinosaurs always were birds, just unusually large and land-bound ones. Not all of them learned to fly and those ones didn’t stand the test of time.
You’re wrong, for one simple fact: it was a branch the SAURISCHIAN dinosaurs that evolved into birds. The saurischian include the theropode (the carnivores) and the sauropode (the four-legged long necks). The Ornitischian were… everything else.
They walked the Earth with cavemen and were killed out during the last ice age, which was four thosand years ago. There is a museum that you can go to which proves it and everything.
“Hey Buck, I just caught this 2 rats trying to rob a store. How was your day?”
“Well, I chased after wild geese to an university were some shots were fired only to find that the shooter left. Then we got reports of an accident on the highway were the shooter was laying on the ground beaten the crap out by a student. Also, the shooter had scratches on his face, like he fought with a bobcat.”
“…You win.”
I would like to imagine ‘Dina-Man’ being pronounced [deena-mon] (rather than [dahy-nuh-man]). Adds a touch of Rastafari to the whole deal … Oh great, now all I can think about is dinosaurs on pot, going on and on about stupid things. :-/
See, it was ridiculously popular when it first came out (as some of our older viewers may remember), and this one woman, while sorting out her wedding music with the church, told them that the music she wanted playing while she walked down the aisle was “the Robin Hood song.” “Yeah, sure, okay, if you like,” they said. And the bride went away, and her big day came, and the doors opened for her to walk down the aisle, and the music came on–and it wasn’t “Everything I Do (I Do It For You)”…. it was “Robin Hood, Robin Hood, riding through the glen…”
The lesson here, folks, is that song titles and artist names are your friends. Poor woman.
I am a lesbian (well, bi in a lesbian relationship), but I cannot say I’m a lesbian for Dina. She sets off my Jail Bait alarms. I know she’s technically of age, but she’s just drawn a tad too young for me.
Still, a very awesome moment. I certainly approve of Becky’s reaction. ^^
When someone starts shooting, and chasing you with a gun, self defense is reasonable. Or, another way of putting it, Dina had a reasonable belief that the guy was going to try to shoot her, or Becky.
I have to say though, as someone who is 25 yet frequently gets mistaked for a high schooler (and even middle schooler if I don’t do my make up ugggh) I really appreciate how Dina is drawn.
At least it’s not the other way around. When I was in middle school and high school, I was mistaken for being in my mid to late 20s. Thankfully, the rest of me has caught up with my strong features, and I’ve grown into them…
In my head, Becky sounds a bit like Applejack, and Dina sounds a bit like Fluttershy, but with obvious nods to her heritage.
Or Dina could just sound like Fluttershy. Idk, I don’t imagine her to have an accent since it’s not written in, whereas other accents are written in (notably Becky’s)
I never figured out why Becky has a southern accent and Joyce doesn’t when they grew up together…
Difference in the education level of the parents. I’m pretty sure Joyce’s parents are both college grads, where ToeDad is probably a HS grad or dropout.
i live in southern Indiana, but I’ve met people from Peru, Indiana (which is further north) who had very much stronger country accents than me, even though my parents were HS education max. (Becky sounds like a country accent in my head, not “southern”.) accent is just something that adds to some characters in this webcomic. it’s possible like Sal that Becky emphasizes her accent in order to stick out, which plenty of people (including me) have done when moving from place to place. after all, Becky didn’t have a different accent from Joyce until she was kicked out of school.
I have a specific voice in my head in which I read Dina’s lines. I do not think it is from anything; it is just what naturally came to me for a tiny paleontology enthusiast with somewhat stilted & formal speech, though I suppose it bears a passing resemblance to Mako Mori from Pacific Rim.
Applejack’s voice is reserved for Sal, but I can totally see Becky as an aged-up Applebloom. They’re even both redheads.
Yup. Applebloom and Becky are redheads, though.
Granted, Applebloom’s mane is red and not the orangey color of Becky’s hair – Big Macintosh is the Apple with that shade – but eh, close enough; squishy humans don’t have the same range of natural color as magical pastel equines.
I hear you. Right after my eighteenth birthday, I was doing some volunteer work at my high school, and a stranger came in, saw me talking to a close friend, and assumed we were married and in our mid-thirties, just based on how we interacted.
I had a guy in his fifties once tell me my then-boyfriend was much too old for me (I was in my late twenties at the time). I sort of side-eyed him and asked him how old he thought he was. “Well, like my age,” he replied.
I didn’t tell him my age; but I did tell him my boyfriend was only six years older than me (didn’t go into my own age, which he may not have correctly guessed, because I think he was sort of trying to chat me up, which was making me deeply uncomfortable).
I’ve since married that boyfriend and the poor guy went grey early; he had a long grey beard (think a young Santa) and got asked if he qualified for a senior’s discount when he was in his late forties once.
It put him out a bit, but I pointed out that some places offered it starting at 50. Heh. He looks younger now that he’s shaved it, but it was kind of too bad; he had to for work but we both liked it.
Aye, I can’t even count the number of times I’ve been carded when I’ve gone to buy a video game. Or how once I went to the gas station with my dad to buy chips and as my dad was paying for everything, the cashier asked for my ID because she thought he was buying a lotto ticket for me. I’ve since had to grow a beard so they’d finally stop carding me.
My fellow people of looking younger then we are, we have one major advantage over those who could get into bars at 16…we will live for fucking ever…or just to our 80’s or 90’s barring accidents
in my family, we’re part fairy or something. all of us (especially the women) look 5 or 10 years younger than we are… until we have children. then suddenly we age 20 years overnight. my sister just had a baby and i’m eagerly waiting to see how old she looks in a year.
I was carded once at the local “Hooter’s”. Problem was, I was in my 50s at the time.
So, I showed them my state ID card that I was issued when I turned 18 …. which was legal age back in 1972.
Man being a guy would help. I wish like growing out my hair had the same effect as growing out a based on a guy. Maybe I should add wrinkle lines with my makeup lol.
One time when I was 26 or so, I went to Applebee’s with an ex-girlfriend, who’s three years younger than me. I ordered a Sprite. She ordered a beer. They carded me but not her.
My wife gets carded occasionally when we go out to eat and she orders a mixed drink. We’re both graying grand-parents, and I think the waiters do it in the hopes of getting a bigger tip. It’s a wise move, she always ups the tip.
Omg, every other trip to gamestop is so annoying for this reason. (Every other because they don’t need to card me for most Nintendo games <3)
Cashier="This is rated M. You need to me at least 17"
Me="Yeah I know" *confidently hands id*
Cashier=*goes wide eyed*
As a GS employee, we’re supposed to card anyone who looks like they *might* be under 30, at least in my district. Some districts are 40. If you’re obviously over one of those ages, you’re being paid a compliment.
34, and I’ve been told I could pass for seventeen, or possibly my early twenties. Different people have different opinions on just how old I look, but everyone seems to agree that I don’t look my age.
I recall the summer before my senior year of college, I was twenty-one years old and working a summer job. One of my co-workers there asked me what grade I was in. I told her I was going to be a senior in college. She was *shocked,* saying, “You’re in college already?! You look like I little girl. When I saw you, I was all, ‘What, they’ve got high school students working here now?’ I thought you were in high school, or not even! I thought you were in ninth grade, at most!” She was so surprised by the revelation of my age that she couldn’t stop babbling about it, until she finally stopped herself and said, “But you must get that a lot.”
All I could think of to say in response to that was, “Yes, I do.”
It runs in my family. My father, may he rest in peace, talked of a time when he was thirty-six years old, and someone assumed he was twenty-four. My mother just turned seventy, and she looks fifty at most.
We should begin profilaxis with daily doses of Carl Sagan, B.Russell and Richard Dawkins right. Religious extremism causes serious brain atrophy in the logic, reason and grammar areas (prefrontal lobe).
Oh, please, not Richard Dawkins. His brain goes on holiday when the topic of religion comes up just as much as Toedad’s. Fundamentalists are fundamentalists.
Next on X-treme Christianity! how to fight the Dragons of Eden! Watch Fundies fight in the gruesome Arena of Life against monsters that roamed the earth before they were born, or earlier! Followed by Fexless News.
I was thinking the other way. Toedad is infected like a zombie and becomes a rational evolutionist with an obsession with dinosaurs. So he agrees to pay for Becky to go to IU as a student.
I mean, she bit a guy who pointed a gun at her after he yelled a racial slur and then chased and threatened her and her gf. I think the police would let that bite go.
Racial slur as in “Oriental”? Here in the UK, that’s (embarrassingly) still the term used on a lot of government forms that ask about your ethnicity, as “Asian” historically only means South Asian here. They have thankfully, in recent years, started to switch from “Oriental” to “East Asian” on some forms though.
I completely missed when Oriental became a racial slur. Objectively, being someone from the Orient is not substantially different from someone being from Asia. But then racial slurs have always been about how they’re used and not about about objective meaning. Well, no. Sometimes the objective meaning has been pretty bad too.
Yeah I didn’t even get that “Oriental” was a racist thing until I started reading it in the comments here. Granted, my first language is Spanish and I don’t know that it carries the same connotations in Spanish, and also my parents are pretty racist so who knows. On the bright side I’ve never used the word, mostly cause I have OCD and thus prefer to be more specific about where people are from. After all, Asia is a pretty large area with many different cultures and languages that lumping them all into one category seems a bit silly. (I also don’t call anyone “European” for the same reason)
I wonder if Dina has ever been exposed to “Xenozoic Tales” (a/k/a “Cadillacs and Dinosaurs”), which led to a short-lived animated series of the same name around 1992?
Might wanna keep that part under wraps, Beckster. While I’m sure they’d find she was justified, the questions to verify it would occupy valuable snuggle time.
With the threat of her dad ended Becky can now openly be on campus. She just shouldn’t stay with the same people for more than a few days so as not to break the campus visitation rules.
I had not considered this possibility. But now I want it to happen, complete with Danny trying to defuse the situation and only making it worse with the reveal that he knows Sal.
I’d considered the initial scenario, but adding Danny is a whole new level of ‘oh shit’! God, it would be fantastic to see him Dan the crap out of that…
Amber already knows he knows Sal, she ran in on them when Danny was showing Sal how to play MarioKart on his DS after Amber flipped some tables and screamed at Ethan in the cafeteria.
I didn’t worry about Dina’s survival, merely worried about the fact that she had somehow been incapacitated during the action. Regardless, it’s good to have her back.
I’d suspected that’s where Dina’s thoughts might go. Attacking Ross was stupid and somewhat out of character for her so I thought that might be the reason.
I do like this couple, Dina brings out Becky’s better side which makes her likable instead of annoying. And with her dad out of the picture her stress and fear should reduce considerably so she won’t have to overcompensate so much anymore.
I’m unlurking to say that Dina and Becky’s relationship is so freaking cute I cannot even handle it. Becky’s enthusiasm for Dina is so sweet and Dina is so likeable and I just want to see them together and happy SO MUCH!!
Those two are adorable. Becky’s so happy and Dina’s … well, Dina. Trying to be stoic and failing. The hesitant grin on her face speaks volumes about their relationship.
The wallpaper he posted in August is close to how I picture that wedding going down… with Dina and Becky flying around on a motorcycle, gunning down soggies with a paintball gun. 😉
So…badass is an acceptable word for Becky now? I mean she said mothereffing, but not Bad A. I’m just asking for clarification purposes, I have no objection to the content itself. Trying to keep up with the character development.
This is only tangentially related, but one of my favorite bizarro instances of censorship was in the trailer for Mallrats. At some point in the movie, Jay and Silent Bob are doing a parody of the Tim Burton Batman movies (long story), and as Silent Bob swings from a rope, Jay yells: “Fly, fat-ass, fly!”, which was then censored in the trailer to “Fly, badass, fly.” Because apparently the word “ass” wasn’t the problem, it was the word “fat”.
There is lots of fucking in the Bible, but they sure don’t call it that. Of course now I’m thinking that “Lay with you!” does not have the same gravitas as “Fuck you!” is better.
“That is not how this protocols work.”
“She dinosaur ambushed my abusive asshole father when he hunted me with a gun and bit him in the face.”
“…adding a ‘clever girl’ to the protocol now.”
“Damn straight.”
“We… don’t actually add that kind of information to the protocol”
“Oh, I know. I just wanted to brag. Isn’t she the most awesome girlfriend EVER? I mean, just DAAAANG.”
“Dang indeed.”
Police: “I see. Now that we have the assault on Mr. Fundie on record, we’ll need Miss Saruyama to come with us so formal charges can be filed against her. Miss, you have the right to remain silent…”
It was in defense of her friend, and well justified, but the police must follow procedure. It’s best to keep this incident among friends and “avoid imperial entanglements.”
If someone’s chasing you with a gun, you’re pretty justified in trying to stop them.
I don’t think anyone would file assault against that, because not only would it be legally incorrect, it would make the department look like huge assholes for trying.
Without doubt, the best couple Willis has given us. Becky and Dina are perfect together. [which is something I’d not have believed at Becky’s intro.]
Yes, finally. Becky at least has acknowledged Amazi-girls part in the whole thing. Which is nice she’s doing that…but, could cause some major problems for AG. Her actions went a bit beyond pouncing on bike riders running stop signs on campus.
Now, if AG actually isn’t lying in a coma under a tree by the road…..
Remember, in the last strip, Joyce said that Walky, Sarah and Dina were there. Ethan wasn’t mentioned, although you would think he’d want to be there for Joyce. Now, there are multiple possibilities: He is there, but Joyce forgot/neglected to mention him, he’s not there, but because he was in class or otherwise occupied he didn’t know Joyce was at the hospital, or he’s somewhere trying to help Amazi-girl.
I love this. Becky is just so enthusiastic. Dina feels genuinely guilty that she didn’t manage stop the man three times her size with a gun, but Becky gives her just the enthusiastic affirmation she needs that she did, indeed, do good.
I admit it took me by surprise slightly to realise, at Joyce’s party, that Becky is probably the only person in the entire comic who’s actually treated Dina like a regular person, rather than constantly talking to/about her with some degree of pity, condescension or sympathy.
Since I haven’t written a good “fudge you Ross post” in a while…
Look at the first panel. Come on, scroll back up and look at it. I’ll wait.
Done? Wasn’t it adorable? Happy smiling Becky hugging her girlfriend. Well, that was it. THAT WAS THE CRIME. That was the reason Becky deserved to be dragged from school, from friends and education. That was the reason she deserved to be sent to abuse camp. That was the reason she had to flee into the night with nothing but a package of Arby’s sauce. That was the reason she had to ask her best friend to lie t her parents. That was the reason she deserved to be threatened with a gun, dragged away from her friends and girlfriend AGAIN, why she deserved to be hit in the face and ultimately put in a car crash.
I guess you’ve never seen an adorable puppy tear apart a cute lil field mouse, huh.
The idea that adorable things are automatically good is such a massive fallacy that it completely overshadows your larger point. Human rights are important, and no religion which favors repression of human rights can ever be godly or good – but trying to justify this obvious truth with sloppy thinking and illogic is ridiculous.
Honestly, maybe chill out a notch? Saying “Look how cute they are together, THIS is the big menace that Ross was trying to prevent by doing all of that horrible abusive fucked up shit” is hardly a cardinal sin. Especially because it’s like, literally true, and the original statement didn’t really overly focus on how “adorable” it was anyway.
Uh, plus this isn’t like, a debate, this was just someone stating how much they hate Ross, who totally deserved it, calling out logical fallacies here is pointless more or less.
I mean, I don’t think you had bad intentions but your aggression is totally misplaced.
By using the argument that [lesbianism is okay|biblical wrath is not okay] because $x is “adorable”, one weakens the argument that [lesbianism is okay|biblical wrath is not okay].
Why would you defend the weakening of that argument?
The overall point was that the thing Ross was convinced was dangerous only seemed that way in his head; it’s harmless for everyone else. I’m not sure what the puppy-and-field-mouse argument was supposed to imply other than “Becky and Dina’s relationship looks adorable, but is actually dangerous.” Which is not remotely supported by the comic. Any danger came from Ross or was a result of his actions.
I don’t think Bagge was trying to paint it up as being okay because it is adorable (and it most certainly is). Becky being a lesbian is so obviously harmless that it magnifies how much of a monster Ross is.
…actually, I’m a bit intrigued by the metaphor. If Dina and Becky is the puppy, who is the cute lil field mouse? Because I’m pretty sure Dina hasn’t bitten Walky yet, and I’m pretty sure we would have known if Ross had a part as mouse boy in hymmel the humming hymnal.
That’s an interesting point that I’ve missed: That Dina thought it was her responsibility to confront and stop Ross herself! It makes sense that she would take her promises to Becky so seriously.
He hadn’t been home to change (if he would’ve, anyway). After being sent off to the mall (and bus-trip back), tracking down his to(w)ed car, sleeping when? No wonder he cracked (more). Not excusing him, at all. Especially, since he did bring the gun, just in case.
You know, I just thought of this… how come the people towing the car didn’t notice the giant friggin rifle in the car? And then call the police? IIRC, the car was parked on campus when it was towed. It’s not like he had the rifle in the trunk.
It fell off onto the roadway. Either the police recovered it as evidence (Maggie could have pointed it out to them) or some trucker has a new toy. It would have been badly scarred, but not irreparably damaged when it hit the pavement and slid.
I misunderstood, sorry. My guess is that it was still in the trunk. He wouldn’t have planned the armed kidnapping, it just presented itself as a possibility after his chattel defied him.
While a lot can happen between panels, this makes it look like it was either in the passenger or back seat. Same for later when he confronts Becky and Joyce at the fountain.
As for the legality of firearms in cars, while I’m not an expert on laws most campuses generally have SOME sort of rule against bringing weapons on campus, or even objects that just look like weapons (like plastic swords that look enough like the real thing), sometimes with actual legal repercussions. Others have posted that some people blatantly ignore these rules and/or that some places have complicated legal workarounds, but in general this sort of thing is frowned upon especially because of all of the school shootings that happen so frequently in America that finding a rifle in a car on a college campus would at least raise a concerned eyebrow.
I’m thinking he had it in the trunk when he arrived at campus to put up fliers.
(so, it was hidden during the towing)
When he returned from Dina’s shenanigans (bus to far-off mall) he had to locate his impounded car, and that’s when he retrieved his boom-stick.
I love the confirmation that Becky hadn’t given up. She would escape from her father later on, but she thought her happy days at IU were over…. well, until she saw a superhero in the mirror that is.
You can shout and threaten and hit and kidnap and whatever you want, ToeDad, but you CAN’T WIN OVER BECKY!
…that would have been much better if I had been capable of correctly spelling the name of the most commonly occurring character of the comic I read several times each day.
This is slightly off topic, but why hasnt anyone just said someone might have faked everything in the bible? Some people are pathological liars who have hallucinations, why couldnt one guy have written everything.
Serious answer: There’s been a lot of scholarship associated with the bible, from its earliest beginnings, really, and I think they would have spotted such shenanigans. I’m not an expert, but I believe there are stylistic differences between different books, not to mention between the old and new testaments. I mean, never mind the historical evidence that Matthew, Mark, Luke & John were real people, not one guy doing translocation.
Jesus however, was not a real person. Like, Pontius Pilate was real, and as a good law enforcing Roman he recorded everything he did and everyone he executed, and while he did execute plenty of people for being rebels or fanatic cult leaders, he never executed anyone by any variation of any of Jesus’s names for any of Jesus’s alleged crimes. The fact that some named characters in the New Testament have a basis in historical record – according to actual eye witnesses that wrote about them doesn’t change the fact that no-one who ever met this so called Yeshua (Jesus) ever recorded meeting him – This in a time where Rome occupied basically everything in that entire region of the world and recorded everything they did.
Actually the first time Jesus was mentioned in writing was MAYBE 70 years after his alleged death. And the first time he was really regarded as an incarnation of a god was CENTURIES after his death. The average life expectancy of a Jewish male during those times was 27.
27.
So 70 years after Jesus died would be like 3 or 4 generations later. So what? Some disciples great great great grand kid wrote a story that had been passed down that far? Um….In our day and age I can’t every name all of my great great great grandparents. I’m Black and Native, so my ancestors lived in societies that were occupied by tyrants…oh wait….so did the alleged Jesus and his buddies.
My best guess? Well, from a scholarly point of view, the Christian mythology is hardly different from any other mythology. It follows the same patterns, the same story line, and has a VERY recent history and appropriating it’s symbols and traditions from cultures it’s conquered as an attempt to appease the conquered people and keep them from revolting. So. It’s the same as any other religion’s myths. A bunch of myths based loosely on facts that are so far removed from actual history that it’s impossible to prove but also hard to disprove because of the few consistencies that do exist.
Pontius Pilate was real, but casting him as a “good law enforcing Roman” is playing to his Gospel portrayal as an honorable man, which is in stark contrast to the few records we have of him elsewhere, in which he is a petty jackass. The Gospel made Pontius Pilate a good guy to avoid the ire of Rome in the early years of the religion, choosing instead to increasingly point fingers at Jewish people for the death of Christ instead.
And, no, the Romans did not keep complete and meticulous records of their crucifixions. Hell, I don’t think there are records of any crucifixions. But we do know Romans crucified people on the regular. “Jesus doesn’t exist because we can’t find records of his death” is an urban legend that doesn’t withstand scrutiny, but is nonetheless popular because it sounds real.
What we do have historical confirmation of, however, is the existence of Jesus’ brother, James the Just, who was a very important figure of early Christianity in Jerusalem. (But whom Christianity felt was at odds with their preferred doctrinal message, so largely ignored and/or obscured.) James the Just was probably not lying about having a brother who was executed by the state for preaching the downfall of Rome. In those times, that wasn’t exactly an uncommon thing. The only uncommon thing about it is some guy named Paul converted the story into something more palatable to a larger, Pagan audience and it took off.
Jesus existed. That he didn’t is an idea that’s fermented by overreaching teenaged atheists.
Oh jeez I just wanted to ask a simple question and I got Willis to be involved, I wasnt trolling or anything willis, it was a real question I had. Dont hurt me D:
Yeah, but a messianic claimant named Yeshua doesn’t pay the bills, so to speak. It’s not like Mohammed, where the dude’s well attested (if considerably less successful than the Quran says). Yeah, there was a YEshua, but the books written about him by alleged disciples don’t have a lot to do with him.
People don’t talk about a historical jesus to say “A messianic claimant existed”, they say it to talk about the bible’s jesus. It rather feels like saying there’s a Historical Arthur because you found a petty knight named Arthur. Though to be fair, the myths built around Yeshua are considerably larger than the myths around, say, Cao Cao.
There are a number of things you can feel confident in saying about the historical Jesus, whether through compounded occurrence in the Bible or determined through the criteria of embarrassment. For example, we’re pretty sure he was from Nazareth, was baptized by John the Baptist, and was crucified for insurrection. The same could be determined for the things he’s recorded as saying in them. That’s a hell of a lot more than we have on King Arthur. A more analogous Biblical figure to King Arthur would be King David.
King David had more than the students of his students to attest to him. David had enemies, both within his borders and outside of them. He had allies that talked about them. And what we have for David isn’t great either, it’s just we actually HAVE something for him, unlike the kings that came before him in the Torah. Talking about David’s beliefs outside of the most generic talk of period-Judaism is kind of a wash.
I mean, Arthur was a deliberate choice, in that we searched for a historical Arthur and never found one (go fig, it’s basically myths invented to try to hijack Charlemagne’s thunder; more to the point though, if we happened to find a petty king named Arthur somewhere on the British Isles, the stories would give us a total of jack and shit to work with in discussing Arthur). We can pretty confidently talk about a historical Iesos as a messianic claimant, but there’s not much we can say for sure about his beliefs, and I have no idea where you get the confidence that his teachings were preserved at ALL, much less with accuracy. I mean, I’m pretty sure you know he hung out with the zealots, so I’m not sure why you’d feel so confident iin talking about the bible as his teachings. An enormous chunk (Although not all of it) of it is non-violent acquiescence to temporal power, which is not what messianic claimants tended to do in Judea.
I’m not really clear why we’re discussing the criteria for embarrassment – it’s not embarrassing for anyone to say that ‘the disciples’ accurately conveyed an oral tradition that included their teachers’ words. Also not clear why you’re saying Jesus’ teachings were recorded. Contradictions aside, the simple fact is they were first written by the disciples’ students, not the disciples. Jesus wasn’t recorded as saying shit.
There’s a lot here where you’re missing the mark of what I’m actually saying, particularly with the criteria of embarrassment stuff, and reiterating myself on this stuff is exhausting, so I’ll bow out and say that I’ve been reading material on this constantly for about a decade and so I feel pretty secure in my understandings!
My understanding is that James the Just describes himself as a brother of christ, but there’s no distinction in his usage of the term between biological brothers and brothers in priesthood, so he wasn’t necessarily talking about an actual biological connection. There are also early christian sects that believed that Jesus was a fully define being that never had an earthly incarnation, the way Yahweh didn’t, but they still referred to themselves sometimes as brothers of Christ, even though they demonstrably weren’t claiming to be actual brothers of a physical person.
Not saying you’re necessarily wrong, but there are certainly ways that a guy claiming to be Jesus’ brother could be real without Jesus himself actually being real.
I wasn’t talking about any personal claims of brotherhood from James, but the description of others. If you’re referring to the book of James from the New Testament, I’m not sure that it’s confirmed genuinely his and not written by a nameless fanboy.
Did you check all the variants of Emanuel while you were at it? 😛
That’s actually an interesting collection of fact and misrepresentation you have there. There is a complete lack of direct official record of his existence at the time, but many records were not preserved, so it may not be as significant as you think. It should also be noted that Paul/Saul appeared on the scene while the original disciples were still doing their thing, and as a Roman citizen he left behind plenty of official record. If you deny his historical existence, then you’re raising it to a whole new level. There may or may not be a record of everyone that Pontius Pilate had executed, But then the account goes that he didn’t have him executed. Neither did he choose to interfere, but rather famously washed his hands of the matter, To coin a phrase.
There are letters that various Roman leaders sent to each other shortly after the death of historical Jesus that were preserved and refer to events and some of these are preserved in the British Museum. It’s possible that these were faked somewhere along the way of course, but if you dismiss all the evidence that does exist as faked then your argument based on lack of historic evidence loses some of its force. I have only a third hand account of the letters content, they apparently they don’t read precisely like Christian propaganda. (One contains a reference in passing to what sounds like rumors of a small outbreak of walking dead near Rome.) Likewise Paul’s letters could be completely faked, but if not, his claims for the divine status of a son of God hardly happened centuries later as you claim.. So altogether it sounds to me like you’re just repeating something you read somewhere.
Interestingly, there is some evidence that much later in life Pontius Pilate became an early Christian due to his wife’s influence.
Skeptical is completely reasonable. And if you have access to the British Museum, I envy you with much envy. Most of my life is in storage, but against the odds I found a page of notes I must have made in the late 70’s or early 80’s. It only mentions Pilate’s letters and that in addition to the original Latin the British Museum has a version in a 6th century Syriac MS and also one in Greek. The name Dr. Tischendorf is in parenthesis but I’m not sure what the context was. Don’t know if that’s enough to help.
I see further down the page I list Josephus as the only historian of the time who mentions Jesus. At this point I have no memory of where that came from and no idea if it’s true.
You might want to rethink that. Referring to someone as a dork may get you an entirely unexpected response, since the term “dork” is also a vulgar reference to both male and female external genitalia — the penis in males; the vulva in females.
Nope, the buffer watch on the left and the preview panels show there’s lots of fun ahead! But, yeah, I was tempted to stop at the end “Walking with Dina” because of “somebody’s” rep. for whip-lashing good feels into nightmares, but then I would have missed today’s smiles.
Oh honey, he was going to jail anyway. Motherfucker fired a GUN on a college campus, you don’t get away with that. Amazigirl helped catch him faster, but even if he got back home uneventfully the cops would have busted down his door and dragged him off before dinner.
He seemed pretty determined to take her home to fix her, and if he actually made it back to La Porte then chances are the police would be waiting for him there. Doesn’t seem he really had a plan beyond “bring heathen daughter home”.
Again, chances are at some point it would have ended with a discharged firearm – whether it was with a potshot at her fleeing, the swat team invading, chances are very much stacked against a non-death outcome.
Awww, and I think the mystery of why Dina was so serious-faced last strip might be solved. She was worried that Becky would be mad at her for not successfully repelling ToeDad. The smile comes back as soon as Becky is overjoyed because Dina tried.
It has to be a wonderful day for Becky despite the traumatic events. Dina fought for her, Joyce came after her, a superhero rescued her. Nobody just left her behind or gave up in the face of ToeDad.
As you say, or, perhaps, Dina was disappointed in herself for being unable to stop Ross in his pursuit of Becky. I so much liked Becky and Dina walking together before Ross found them that I was anxious that something about the episode might have prevented them getting back that happiness together.
Sadly I know of several areas where the judge would have Joyce and Dina arrested for “assaulting their elder”, and would release Toedad and give him adult custody of Becky due to her “obvious mental defects” (=her preferences). Also, Sal would be “encouraged” to move elsewhere and someone like Amazi-Girl would just mysteriously disappear. Their version of history started 6000 years ago and ENDED hundreds of years ago.
What really worries me is why most of what happens in those areas never gets reported on outside those areas.
Uh, guys?
I don’t know how long it’s been there, and if anyone has already commented on it.
But the title of B6Ch3 is listed in the archive now.
And it’s “When God Closes the Door”.
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their smiles at the end are so precious
Becky: Triangle Grin-achievement unlocked!
Pretty sure she already pulled it off at least once, though still rounder than Joyce’s.
Fought her dad… for a nickel, in the faaaaaaccee
Nah, fought her dad for a Becky! 😉
She stubbed that toe in the faaaaaaaaaaaace. ;P
With her peni-
no, Im not going to finish that
thats just not right
That smile kinda looks like a “semi-circle grin” to me, actually. But still very cute. 😀
Dinas shy but proud smile is so fucking precious <3 like shes realizing she did good and should feel good!
The cuteness is painful.
…but in the *best* way.
It was the best she could do. 😏
she really fought TOOTH AND NAIL, HUH
Tooth and toe nail.
Fang and claw.
and Omnisaur!
… Crap, wrong comic.
Digit and dentition.
Cuticle and canine
Toeth and Nail?
No… that doesn’t work…
She’s red in tooth, claw, and t-shirt… (and I think she’s blushing a little bit at the end)
Best thread.
The first thing I thought of was the card. Wow, I’ve been playing mono-green too long.
Great, now Ross is going to turn into a velociraptor (VelocirapToe?) every full moon.
A werelociraptoe.
That’s awful. Like, I mean, awful. Really.
Iunno, it made me chuckle.
Here’s all my lols. Have them.
No, but a green dinosaur hat will appear on his head during full moons, causing him to be shunned by Young Earth Creationists.
he wakes up sweating in the middle of the night, clutching an ammonite and doubting the stubborn refudal of carbon dating he once held.
And then he learns of radiometric dating.
VeToeciraptor?
Toerannosaurus Ross….
+ at least a dozen.
BronToesaurus. Large, slow, and stoopid. 😛
Only when the Raptorbane is in bloom.
A man who doesn’t believe the Earth is over 6,000 years old being turned into a creature that died out several million years ago.
…I’d pay to watch that.
“Aaaah! Witchcraft!”
“I’m sorry I called you a meatball, Charles Darwin.”
(Obscure?)
Must be too obscure. This very post is the second result on Google for that sequence of words.
What is it from?
Unfortunately, he’d probably just get recruited by the Creation Museum (as they claim dinosaurs were created 6,000 years ago and would hang out eating plants in Eden).
Unless he grew feathers. They hate the concept of dinosaurs with feathers for some reason.
Because dinosaurs having feathers strengthens their relationship with birds and strengthens the argument that one evolved into the other. They hate the E word.
Purely FWIW, I’m increasingly sure that the Ornithiscian dinosaurs always were birds, just unusually large and land-bound ones. Not all of them learned to fly and those ones didn’t stand the test of time.
You’re wrong, for one simple fact: it was a branch the SAURISCHIAN dinosaurs that evolved into birds. The saurischian include the theropode (the carnivores) and the sauropode (the four-legged long necks). The Ornitischian were… everything else.
Okay, the Saurischians then.
They drowned in the Flood, you know. Too big the fit in Noah’s ark.
But don’t ask how the overly large and very toothsome, sea creatures drowned in the flood …..
Toothsome is an awesome word that needs to be used more
along the unicorns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7CSEEtzGiY
damn typo’s need to proof-read before clickling “post comment”
Along with the unicorns
Despite the fact that elephants got on the boat, and Velociraptors would be about the size of a medium dog.
They walked the Earth with cavemen and were killed out during the last ice age, which was four thosand years ago. There is a museum that you can go to which proves it and everything.
Also, cavemen used them as excavating equipment, and kept the more dog-like ones as pets.
Exactly! There was a series of documentaries about that on tv.
You know, I thought he might be like the Blaine of the Amazigirl rogue’s gallery, but I’d settle for him being the Killer Croc or Man-bat
But Killer Croc is like the pro wrestler / charlie brown of the batman villains.
” I almost got Batman. I hit him with a rock. It was a big rock.”
So he’s periodically chicken?
does his hair go all pointy to look like the claw
It was the best she could do.
Why must you wound me in this way?
Dude! Too soon!
And the hat stayed on!
…ladies ; )
I’m only disappointed (kindasortanotreally) that this wasn’t Dina’s actual line in the strip. I was so sure…
The pain! The pain!
*slow clap*
I don’t get the reference. Other people are up in arms over it.
it’s from “it’s walky”. quite tragic. willis was less opposed to shocking the readership back then
I am surprised that this is so far the only comment referencing that line.
it was too perfect. the rest of us pay it due respect and leave it alone
Watch out! Dina’s gonna have a taste for blood, now!
♪I’ve tasted blood and I want more (more! more! more!)…♫
The Walky Horror Picture Show?
You win -5 Internets for that.
Dina’s a creature of the night! 😉
Creature… of the night?
Feed me Seymore!
Well, her hat *is* mean and green!
I doubt its capacity for motherhood, though, and it being from outer space is a preposterous concept.
♫With a Rebel Yell…she cried more more more♪
Those cops are having an interesting day, that’s for sure.
“Hey Buck, I just caught this 2 rats trying to rob a store. How was your day?”
“Well, I chased after wild geese to an university were some shots were fired only to find that the shooter left. Then we got reports of an accident on the highway were the shooter was laying on the ground beaten the crap out by a student. Also, the shooter had scratches on his face, like he fought with a bobcat.”
“…You win.”
“Huh, all I was doing was looking for a carsurfing punk dressed as a superhero. Never found them”
“Mmmmm — Donuts!”
Instead of girlfriend, package contained bobcat.
Would totes buy again.
http://youalreadyknowwhoitis.com/2009/04/24/bobcat-goldthwait/
+1
(that was for Chris Phoenix)
That was already my favorite xkcd even before this comment. 🙂
Dina, FUCK YEAH!
Fighting Toedads, to save the motherfuckin’ day, yeah!
Fundie scum you day is through, NOW ITS TIME TO ANSWE TOO…
Fuck Yeah!!
At least it wasn’t a radioactive Dina bite.
no but IF IT WAS
Definitely…the trademark disputes over the name ‘Dina-Man’ would be a pain.
I would like to imagine ‘Dina-Man’ being pronounced [deena-mon] (rather than [dahy-nuh-man]). Adds a touch of Rastafari to the whole deal … Oh great, now all I can think about is dinosaurs on pot, going on and on about stupid things. :-/
Electra Becky and Dina Girl, fighting off evil Dads.
Maaaaybe “Electra” is the wrong name for Becky…
Rastafari Dinos from the stoned-age.
Dina’s pretty small, so I’d say she emits about 300 gamma rays per second (average human is 500). But still radioactive.
If she was really Radio Active, I wonder what her call sign would be?
Wouldn’t it rather be a call kanji?
…
I’ll show myself out.
N9RAR, of course
*plays Bryan Adam’s song from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves*
–on the Muzak of course*
That’s what … “(Everything I Do) I Do It For You”?
Good tune; great lyrics.
Ha! I have an anecdote about that song…
See, it was ridiculously popular when it first came out (as some of our older viewers may remember), and this one woman, while sorting out her wedding music with the church, told them that the music she wanted playing while she walked down the aisle was “the Robin Hood song.” “Yeah, sure, okay, if you like,” they said. And the bride went away, and her big day came, and the doors opened for her to walk down the aisle, and the music came on–and it wasn’t “Everything I Do (I Do It For You)”…. it was “Robin Hood, Robin Hood, riding through the glen…”
The lesson here, folks, is that song titles and artist names are your friends. Poor woman.
Bahahaha! or… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx_4C1cyUZA
(woulda worked for a couple)
At least it wasn’t the one from Robin Hood: Men in Tights?
Great, now I remember that the guy who played the Sheriff of Rottingham (Roger Rees) died a few months ago.
You mean this?
yessssssssssssssss
:oD
I actully liked Maid Marion’s song (about “who has the key”) more.
Awww 🙂
Yeah. But as cute as these guys are and as relieved as I am to see them safely back together, I hope Danny is taking care of Amazigirl /Amber.
I hope not. She needs a goddamn doctor.
“I bit his face.”
Not gunna lie, I’d be a lesbian for Dina too if she bit my dad’s face.
I am a lesbian (well, bi in a lesbian relationship), but I cannot say I’m a lesbian for Dina. She sets off my Jail Bait alarms. I know she’s technically of age, but she’s just drawn a tad too young for me.
Still, a very awesome moment. I certainly approve of Becky’s reaction. ^^
“Jail Bait”?
That’s the next plot. Becky and Dina will make out in public, but then Becky’ll get arrested.
Jalea Bates? I thought we did that plot already.
…I didn’t understand until now. -_-
Becky is so enthusiastic about getting Dina’s story in the police record, the cops treat it as a confession, and arrest Dina for assault.
When someone starts shooting, and chasing you with a gun, self defense is reasonable. Or, another way of putting it, Dina had a reasonable belief that the guy was going to try to shoot her, or Becky.
I have to say though, as someone who is 25 yet frequently gets mistaked for a high schooler (and even middle schooler if I don’t do my make up ugggh) I really appreciate how Dina is drawn.
*mistaken
Well, if being mistaken for a teen (or preteen) is going to happen anyway, you might as well accept it and have some fun with it.
At least it’s not the other way around. When I was in middle school and high school, I was mistaken for being in my mid to late 20s. Thankfully, the rest of me has caught up with my strong features, and I’ve grown into them…
In my head, Becky sounds a bit like Applejack, and Dina sounds a bit like Fluttershy, but with obvious nods to her heritage.
Yeah, I got my first Senior Citizen discount when I was 37 (and no I didn’t ask for it, I was just given it).
Okay, on the one hand I can see why you would be annoyed at that. On the other hand, that’s kind of cool and I’m a little jealous, ahaha~
Or Dina could just sound like Fluttershy. Idk, I don’t imagine her to have an accent since it’s not written in, whereas other accents are written in (notably Becky’s)
I never figured out why Becky has a southern accent and Joyce doesn’t when they grew up together…
Difference in the education level of the parents. I’m pretty sure Joyce’s parents are both college grads, where ToeDad is probably a HS grad or dropout.
More likely a High-school Football star and graduated on that.
i live in southern Indiana, but I’ve met people from Peru, Indiana (which is further north) who had very much stronger country accents than me, even though my parents were HS education max. (Becky sounds like a country accent in my head, not “southern”.) accent is just something that adds to some characters in this webcomic. it’s possible like Sal that Becky emphasizes her accent in order to stick out, which plenty of people (including me) have done when moving from place to place. after all, Becky didn’t have a different accent from Joyce until she was kicked out of school.
Omg I didn’t notice that! Woah. She really did start the accent after she got kicked out.
I have a specific voice in my head in which I read Dina’s lines. I do not think it is from anything; it is just what naturally came to me for a tiny paleontology enthusiast with somewhat stilted & formal speech, though I suppose it bears a passing resemblance to Mako Mori from Pacific Rim.
Applejack’s voice is reserved for Sal, but I can totally see Becky as an aged-up Applebloom. They’re even both redheads.
I hear Dina as a more stilted version of Phoebe from Hey Arnold.
DUDE. Yes. I was hearing it in my head but I wasn’t attributing it to anything.
Isn’t AJ blonde though?
Yup. Applebloom and Becky are redheads, though.
Granted, Applebloom’s mane is red and not the orangey color of Becky’s hair – Big Macintosh is the Apple with that shade – but eh, close enough; squishy humans don’t have the same range of natural color as magical pastel equines.
I hear you. Right after my eighteenth birthday, I was doing some volunteer work at my high school, and a stranger came in, saw me talking to a close friend, and assumed we were married and in our mid-thirties, just based on how we interacted.
I had a guy in his fifties once tell me my then-boyfriend was much too old for me (I was in my late twenties at the time). I sort of side-eyed him and asked him how old he thought he was. “Well, like my age,” he replied.
I didn’t tell him my age; but I did tell him my boyfriend was only six years older than me (didn’t go into my own age, which he may not have correctly guessed, because I think he was sort of trying to chat me up, which was making me deeply uncomfortable).
I’ve since married that boyfriend and the poor guy went grey early; he had a long grey beard (think a young Santa) and got asked if he qualified for a senior’s discount when he was in his late forties once.
It put him out a bit, but I pointed out that some places offered it starting at 50. Heh. He looks younger now that he’s shaved it, but it was kind of too bad; he had to for work but we both liked it.
I think of her as having a scratchy-sounding, but not unpleasant voice.
Aye, I can’t even count the number of times I’ve been carded when I’ve gone to buy a video game. Or how once I went to the gas station with my dad to buy chips and as my dad was paying for everything, the cashier asked for my ID because she thought he was buying a lotto ticket for me. I’ve since had to grow a beard so they’d finally stop carding me.
When we went out to dinner for my 30th birthday, I asked for beer and the server laughed at me and walked away.
What a dick. The least they could’ve done was check for ID.
My fellow people of looking younger then we are, we have one major advantage over those who could get into bars at 16…we will live for fucking ever…or just to our 80’s or 90’s barring accidents
in my family, we’re part fairy or something. all of us (especially the women) look 5 or 10 years younger than we are… until we have children. then suddenly we age 20 years overnight. my sister just had a baby and i’m eagerly waiting to see how old she looks in a year.
I was carded once at the local “Hooter’s”. Problem was, I was in my 50s at the time.
So, I showed them my state ID card that I was issued when I turned 18 …. which was legal age back in 1972.
Are you allowed to stiff them on the tip if they do that?
Not if they think you’re younger than you are; but if they offer you the senior discount more than a decade too early, you betcha. 😉
Server offers me a discount, especially one I wasn’t expecting (and it’s not just to make up for poor service), I add the discount amount to the tip.
“Excuse me, sir, did you forget to add the tip?”
“Ha ha ha” *walks away*
The Mike gravatar is super amazing for this comment omg
“But sir, it’s my BIRTHDAY!”
Did you complain? Because that’s pretty rude of them.
This mirrors a lot of me restaurant experiences
*my
Didn’t mean to be a pirate there (argh!)
It may not have been because you looked to young.
Ha! This is me too. I grew a beard in my early twenties and finally looked 18.
My beard never helped me look older until it went grey.
Man being a guy would help. I wish like growing out my hair had the same effect as growing out a based on a guy. Maybe I should add wrinkle lines with my makeup lol.
One time when I was 26 or so, I went to Applebee’s with an ex-girlfriend, who’s three years younger than me. I ordered a Sprite. She ordered a beer. They carded me but not her.
My wife gets carded occasionally when we go out to eat and she orders a mixed drink. We’re both graying grand-parents, and I think the waiters do it in the hopes of getting a bigger tip. It’s a wise move, she always ups the tip.
Omg, every other trip to gamestop is so annoying for this reason. (Every other because they don’t need to card me for most Nintendo games <3)
Cashier="This is rated M. You need to me at least 17"
Me="Yeah I know" *confidently hands id*
Cashier=*goes wide eyed*
As a GS employee, we’re supposed to card anyone who looks like they *might* be under 30, at least in my district. Some districts are 40. If you’re obviously over one of those ages, you’re being paid a compliment.
I’m 32 and people still think I’m a teenager. *sigh*
34, and I’ve been told I could pass for seventeen, or possibly my early twenties. Different people have different opinions on just how old I look, but everyone seems to agree that I don’t look my age.
I recall the summer before my senior year of college, I was twenty-one years old and working a summer job. One of my co-workers there asked me what grade I was in. I told her I was going to be a senior in college. She was *shocked,* saying, “You’re in college already?! You look like I little girl. When I saw you, I was all, ‘What, they’ve got high school students working here now?’ I thought you were in high school, or not even! I thought you were in ninth grade, at most!” She was so surprised by the revelation of my age that she couldn’t stop babbling about it, until she finally stopped herself and said, “But you must get that a lot.”
All I could think of to say in response to that was, “Yes, I do.”
It runs in my family. My father, may he rest in peace, talked of a time when he was thirty-six years old, and someone assumed he was twenty-four. My mother just turned seventy, and she looks fifty at most.
This, and the preceding comic, told me that Dina was into girls, even if she wasn’t aware of it.
Oh Hells Yeah!
Plot twist: Dina catches Extreme Christianity from Toedad’s blood.
I’m sure her parents had her vaccinated.
Yes, but recently? Every year slightly different strains evolve.
Despite desperately denying that such evolution is possible.
We should begin profilaxis with daily doses of Carl Sagan, B.Russell and Richard Dawkins right. Religious extremism causes serious brain atrophy in the logic, reason and grammar areas (prefrontal lobe).
Oh, please, not Richard Dawkins. His brain goes on holiday when the topic of religion comes up just as much as Toedad’s. Fundamentalists are fundamentalists.
You vaccinate with pathogens, not vitamins.
Actually, Dawkins is a religion antibody. It’s only hostile to other religions.
Next on X-treme Christianity! how to fight the Dragons of Eden! Watch Fundies fight in the gruesome Arena of Life against monsters that roamed the earth before they were born, or earlier! Followed by Fexless News.
That sounds counter-intuitive.
Like many display features, logical impossibilities and idiotic prescriptions grow ever more flamboyant and encumbering as time goes on.
I was thinking the other way. Toedad is infected like a zombie and becomes a rational evolutionist with an obsession with dinosaurs. So he agrees to pay for Becky to go to IU as a student.
These two are just so cute together. Dina’s last line made me smile.
My lil rays of sunshine <3
“So Detective Stevens, why did you reclassify this as an animal attack?”
“Um…”
“Whatever. Put him in the same block as the other asshole dad animal attack victim.”
Dina, that’s disgusting. Why would you do that.
Now you’ve got toedad cooties.
She might even have to pick some facial hair out of her teeth.
Wait, Becky can do the Triangle Grin, too?!
It’s part of the homeschooling curriculum. Joyce aced it.
Man THIS out triangle grins Joyce. I am glad I am not the only one who noticed because it is the only reason I got on to comment.
Ive spent forever trying to accomplish the triangle grin, so far I have only succeeded in scaring small children
Appropriate Avatar.
Haha, I teach so I use it a as an answer to silly questions from students to make the class worry.
I suspect that they teach it at Sunday School at their church or something. 😉
Becky’s is more of a Reuleaux Triangle. I can’t decide whether it’s an advanced form of triangle grin, or a not-quite-there-yet.
There is only ONE Lady of The Triangle Smile, and her name is Joyce. So, I’d say the latter. Still, B+ for effort.
*Our Lady of The Triangle Smile
Silly me.
You don’t Dina’s biting in the paperwork, that might end up biting her in the ass later on.
I mean, she bit a guy who pointed a gun at her after he yelled a racial slur and then chased and threatened her and her gf. I think the police would let that bite go.
Hopefully but legalistic stupidity has happened before…
Frequently.
Racial slur as in “Oriental”? Here in the UK, that’s (embarrassingly) still the term used on a lot of government forms that ask about your ethnicity, as “Asian” historically only means South Asian here. They have thankfully, in recent years, started to switch from “Oriental” to “East Asian” on some forms though.
I completely missed when Oriental became a racial slur. Objectively, being someone from the Orient is not substantially different from someone being from Asia. But then racial slurs have always been about how they’re used and not about about objective meaning. Well, no. Sometimes the objective meaning has been pretty bad too.
Yeah I didn’t even get that “Oriental” was a racist thing until I started reading it in the comments here. Granted, my first language is Spanish and I don’t know that it carries the same connotations in Spanish, and also my parents are pretty racist so who knows. On the bright side I’ve never used the word, mostly cause I have OCD and thus prefer to be more specific about where people are from. After all, Asia is a pretty large area with many different cultures and languages that lumping them all into one category seems a bit silly. (I also don’t call anyone “European” for the same reason)
I thought using the term “Oriental” was only racist if you say it while using a “flied lice” accent.
I thought it’s racist because it means “(of/from the) east” …
… is that a Dinosaur Comics shirt?
Yep, available here https://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Product_Code=QW-PANELTWO&Category_Code=QW-SHIRTS
I wonder if Dina has ever been exposed to “Xenozoic Tales” (a/k/a “Cadillacs and Dinosaurs”), which led to a short-lived animated series of the same name around 1992?
And a video game:
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/finalfightclones/finalfightclones2.htm
…yes, the same one she’s using continously since early September out-of-comic / the start of this day in-comic.
Yeah Dina!
Literally fought tooth and nail. Snarling and gnashing of teeth!
They’re so cute together.
Dina is the best yoshi… nom nom on some faces
…I’m guessing that’s “Yoshi” as in Mario Bros and not Dr. McNinja? 😀
Yeah, I can totally see Becky sacrificing Dina to reach the top of a goal post.That’s what I was thinking, too.my favourite pairing, the kind of relationship where you personalities compliment eachother and bring out the best
This makes me so happy! Look how proud Becky is of her cute and badass girlfriend and how blushy Dina gets about it. BABIES.
BABIES!
As heartwarming as this is, I can’t help thinking about how much worse this would have been in real life and feeling sad.
Dina bit toe-dad. Huh a new way of putting a for in your mouth?
Bad joke is bad and I feel bad for saying it.
I TAKE EVERYTHING I EVER DOUBT-MUMBLED BACK THESE TWO FOREVER AND EVER AND EVER
<3
It’s a good thing I don’t have diabetes, because if I did this strip would put me in a coma.
Well at the rate this is going, you and everyone else will be getting Type 2 diabetes in short order.
Totes worth it.
Might wanna keep that part under wraps, Beckster. While I’m sure they’d find she was justified, the questions to verify it would occupy valuable snuggle time.
Dina bit Toedad? Ooh, now she’s gonna need some shots…
Sake or tequila?
Jello.
So, all of the above, then?
Yeah, Dina better get vaccinated. She doesn’t want to end up with Toe-and-Mouth Disease.
….
I’ll see myself out.
That’s love. 🙂
What NO! Damn it women did you already forget your not supposed to be on cam pushing don’t draw to much attention to yourself.
With the threat of her dad ended Becky can now openly be on campus. She just shouldn’t stay with the same people for more than a few days so as not to break the campus visitation rules.
BLESS YE BECKY I LOVE YOU but where is she going to stay?
She’s sharing a room with Sal, courtesy of Billie, who’s moving in with Ruth.
Then, for coital convenience, Dina will swap bunks with Sal…
AAAAHHH
I had not considered this possibility. But now I want it to happen, complete with Danny trying to defuse the situation and only making it worse with the reveal that he knows Sal.
I’d considered the initial scenario, but adding Danny is a whole new level of ‘oh shit’! God, it would be fantastic to see him Dan the crap out of that…
Thing is, amber will be boiling over with rage, but sal will probably remain oblivious until she stumbles on the amazi-girl costume
Also we have very different definitions of fantastic.
Heh. http://tinyurl.com/p53lnft
Amber already knows he knows Sal, she ran in on them when Danny was showing Sal how to play MarioKart on his DS after Amber flipped some tables and screamed at Ethan in the cafeteria.
Sorry, no link, too lazy to go find it.
she may have been a bit too distracted to notice danny back then. not sure whether she realizes that they have had proper interactions
And then Billie, knowing about the switches, continues to see Amazigirl in/leaving Sal’s new room.
I really want to hear Billie’s theory about how that Sal catching Amazi-Girl thing worked.
She’s a quick change artist.
Bilocation.
I figured with all the publicity she wouldn’t be able to stay at the dorm anymore
I didn’t worry about Dina’s survival, merely worried about the fact that she had somehow been incapacitated during the action. Regardless, it’s good to have her back.
I was afraid she might get something in her eye.
I’d suspected that’s where Dina’s thoughts might go. Attacking Ross was stupid and somewhat out of character for her so I thought that might be the reason.
I do like this couple, Dina brings out Becky’s better side which makes her likable instead of annoying. And with her dad out of the picture her stress and fear should reduce considerably so she won’t have to overcompensate so much anymore.
I agree! I like Becky’s character a lot more since the walking with Dina chapter.
Doing whatever she can to protect the things she cares about, even to sacrificing her own life if necessary, is totally in character for Dina.
I’m unlurking to say that Dina and Becky’s relationship is so freaking cute I cannot even handle it. Becky’s enthusiasm for Dina is so sweet and Dina is so likeable and I just want to see them together and happy SO MUCH!!
I think there’s probably been a couple times I’ve commented calling something “the cutest” but that last panel definitely wins it.
I am filled with happiness! Becky and Dina are so cute, I hope that they will be able to spend more time together on-panel!
Those two are adorable. Becky’s so happy and Dina’s … well, Dina. Trying to be stoic and failing. The hesitant grin on her face speaks volumes about their relationship.
I don’t know why, or how, but that is frigging adorable!
Hey, Willis, how about a patreon wallpaper of their wedding picture? 😀
The wallpaper he posted in August is close to how I picture that wedding going down… with Dina and Becky flying around on a motorcycle, gunning down soggies with a paintball gun. 😉
I seriously hope amber made it to the hospital.
So…badass is an acceptable word for Becky now? I mean she said mothereffing, but not Bad A. I’m just asking for clarification purposes, I have no objection to the content itself. Trying to keep up with the character development.
“Fuck” is a way worse word than “ass.”
This is only tangentially related, but one of my favorite bizarro instances of censorship was in the trailer for Mallrats. At some point in the movie, Jay and Silent Bob are doing a parody of the Tim Burton Batman movies (long story), and as Silent Bob swings from a rope, Jay yells: “Fly, fat-ass, fly!”, which was then censored in the trailer to “Fly, badass, fly.” Because apparently the word “ass” wasn’t the problem, it was the word “fat”.
“Ass” is in the Bible!
There is lots of fucking in the Bible, but they sure don’t call it that. Of course now I’m thinking that “Lay with you!” does not have the same gravitas as “Fuck you!” is better.
“Know thyself!”
Bravo!
“I want it on the record that my girlfriend is an epic badass.”
“HEY COPS, make sure you get a saliva sample from my dad’s face!”
Cops: “Uh, why?…”
“That is not how this protocols work.”
“She dinosaur ambushed my abusive asshole father when he hunted me with a gun and bit him in the face.”
“…adding a ‘clever girl’ to the protocol now.”
“Damn straight.”
Alternatively,
“We… don’t actually add that kind of information to the protocol”
“Oh, I know. I just wanted to brag. Isn’t she the most awesome girlfriend EVER? I mean, just DAAAANG.”
“Dang indeed.”
Police: “I see. Now that we have the assault on Mr. Fundie on record, we’ll need Miss Saruyama to come with us so formal charges can be filed against her. Miss, you have the right to remain silent…”
It was in defense of her friend, and well justified, but the police must follow procedure. It’s best to keep this incident among friends and “avoid imperial entanglements.”
What the fuck? It was in self defence!
Yeah, that’s not how assault works.
If someone’s chasing you with a gun, you’re pretty justified in trying to stop them.
I don’t think anyone would file assault against that, because not only would it be legally incorrect, it would make the department look like huge assholes for trying.
Without doubt, the best couple Willis has given us. Becky and Dina are perfect together. [which is something I’d not have believed at Becky’s intro.]
Yes, finally. Becky at least has acknowledged Amazi-girls part in the whole thing. Which is nice she’s doing that…but, could cause some major problems for AG. Her actions went a bit beyond pouncing on bike riders running stop signs on campus.
Now, if AG actually isn’t lying in a coma under a tree by the road…..
Danny is taking care of Amazigirl afterwards like always. I chose to believe this.
I wonder if Ethan is helping Amazi-girl too…
Remember, in the last strip, Joyce said that Walky, Sarah and Dina were there. Ethan wasn’t mentioned, although you would think he’d want to be there for Joyce. Now, there are multiple possibilities: He is there, but Joyce forgot/neglected to mention him, he’s not there, but because he was in class or otherwise occupied he didn’t know Joyce was at the hospital, or he’s somewhere trying to help Amazi-girl.
Clever girl.
LAST PANEL’S DINAFACE AHHHHH
Aaaaaaaa I love it when Becky smiles because her mouth is almost as big as Dina’s head!
…I don’t know where you’re going with that, but
Becky has a type.
Tags: becky, dina, becky’s teeth
I love this. Becky is just so enthusiastic. Dina feels genuinely guilty that she didn’t manage stop the man three times her size with a gun, but Becky gives her just the enthusiastic affirmation she needs that she did, indeed, do good.
Come to think of it, Becky has a habit of saying just the things Dina needs to hear.
Becky is the best girlfriend
I admit it took me by surprise slightly to realise, at Joyce’s party, that Becky is probably the only person in the entire comic who’s actually treated Dina like a regular person, rather than constantly talking to/about her with some degree of pity, condescension or sympathy.
Yup, it took me by complete surprise, but once it happened felt just right.
Sarah has her moments too.
Yep. And that’s if they even notice she’s present.
Another un-lurker here! This is the best page ever!! Dina and Becky are so adorable that I can see sugar crystallizing on my hands.
Since I haven’t written a good “fudge you Ross post” in a while…
Look at the first panel. Come on, scroll back up and look at it. I’ll wait.
Done? Wasn’t it adorable? Happy smiling Becky hugging her girlfriend. Well, that was it. THAT WAS THE CRIME. That was the reason Becky deserved to be dragged from school, from friends and education. That was the reason she deserved to be sent to abuse camp. That was the reason she had to flee into the night with nothing but a package of Arby’s sauce. That was the reason she had to ask her best friend to lie t her parents. That was the reason she deserved to be threatened with a gun, dragged away from her friends and girlfriend AGAIN, why she deserved to be hit in the face and ultimately put in a car crash.
According to her father.
Fudge you Ross.
I guess you’ve never seen an adorable puppy tear apart a cute lil field mouse, huh.
The idea that adorable things are automatically good is such a massive fallacy that it completely overshadows your larger point. Human rights are important, and no religion which favors repression of human rights can ever be godly or good – but trying to justify this obvious truth with sloppy thinking and illogic is ridiculous.
Honestly, maybe chill out a notch? Saying “Look how cute they are together, THIS is the big menace that Ross was trying to prevent by doing all of that horrible abusive fucked up shit” is hardly a cardinal sin. Especially because it’s like, literally true, and the original statement didn’t really overly focus on how “adorable” it was anyway.
Uh, plus this isn’t like, a debate, this was just someone stating how much they hate Ross, who totally deserved it, calling out logical fallacies here is pointless more or less.
I mean, I don’t think you had bad intentions but your aggression is totally misplaced.
By using the argument that [lesbianism is okay|biblical wrath is not okay] because $x is “adorable”, one weakens the argument that [lesbianism is okay|biblical wrath is not okay].
Why would you defend the weakening of that argument?
The overall point was that the thing Ross was convinced was dangerous only seemed that way in his head; it’s harmless for everyone else. I’m not sure what the puppy-and-field-mouse argument was supposed to imply other than “Becky and Dina’s relationship looks adorable, but is actually dangerous.” Which is not remotely supported by the comic. Any danger came from Ross or was a result of his actions.
So … what are you trying to say, exactly?
I don’t think Bagge was trying to paint it up as being okay because it is adorable (and it most certainly is). Becky being a lesbian is so obviously harmless that it magnifies how much of a monster Ross is.
It is very hard, isn’t it, to try to justify the error of Ross’ ways. I really have to grasp at straws to explain why this man’s action could possibly be seen in a negative light…
So if you accuse me of stating the obvious… yeah, I should bloody well HOPE it’s obvious at this point.
…actually, I’m a bit intrigued by the metaphor. If Dina and Becky is the puppy, who is the cute lil field mouse? Because I’m pretty sure Dina hasn’t bitten Walky yet, and I’m pretty sure we would have known if Ross had a part as mouse boy in hymmel the humming hymnal.
That’s an interesting point that I’ve missed: That Dina thought it was her responsibility to confront and stop Ross herself! It makes sense that she would take her promises to Becky so seriously.
The poor girl looks so bashful! It’s cute!
It also ties back to her earlier failure to keep Blaine from finding Amber.
Oh, he wore camo pants then too! That’s like several days ago.
He hadn’t been home to change (if he would’ve, anyway). After being sent off to the mall (and bus-trip back), tracking down his to(w)ed car, sleeping when? No wonder he cracked (more). Not excusing him, at all. Especially, since he did bring the gun, just in case.
You know, I just thought of this… how come the people towing the car didn’t notice the giant friggin rifle in the car? And then call the police? IIRC, the car was parked on campus when it was towed. It’s not like he had the rifle in the trunk.
It fell off onto the roadway. Either the police recovered it as evidence (Maggie could have pointed it out to them) or some trucker has a new toy. It would have been badly scarred, but not irreparably damaged when it hit the pavement and slid.
I think Dragon_Nataku was referring to this towing.
Yes, that one. Thanks Peduncle for being less lazy than I~
I misunderstood, sorry. My guess is that it was still in the trunk. He wouldn’t have planned the armed kidnapping, it just presented itself as a possibility after his chattel defied him.
First, what makes you sure it was not in the trunk?
Second, is driving around with a rifle in the car actually illegal in Indiana?
It’s main purpose is to be used for hunting deer, so hunters must have a legal option to bring it to the hunting grounds.
While a lot can happen between panels, this makes it look like it was either in the passenger or back seat. Same for later when he confronts Becky and Joyce at the fountain.
As for the legality of firearms in cars, while I’m not an expert on laws most campuses generally have SOME sort of rule against bringing weapons on campus, or even objects that just look like weapons (like plastic swords that look enough like the real thing), sometimes with actual legal repercussions. Others have posted that some people blatantly ignore these rules and/or that some places have complicated legal workarounds, but in general this sort of thing is frowned upon especially because of all of the school shootings that happen so frequently in America that finding a rifle in a car on a college campus would at least raise a concerned eyebrow.
I’m thinking he had it in the trunk when he arrived at campus to put up fliers.
(so, it was hidden during the towing)
When he returned from Dina’s shenanigans (bus to far-off mall) he had to locate his impounded car, and that’s when he retrieved his boom-stick.
Toedads rifle was id’d as a Ruger Varminteer, for executing varmints, aka vermin, (?aka lezbo daughters who dont want to be saved?)
GOD, but I love these two!
I love the confirmation that Becky hadn’t given up. She would escape from her father later on, but she thought her happy days at IU were over…. well, until she saw a superhero in the mirror that is.
You can shout and threaten and hit and kidnap and whatever you want, ToeDad, but you CAN’T WIN OVER BECKY!
You may control my body; you may even control my mind, but you will never control MY SOUL!!
“You may have invaded my mind and my body, but there’s one thing a Becky ALWAYS keeps: HER DINAAAAA.”
and her Joy(se), of course.
…that would have been much better if I had been capable of correctly spelling the name of the most commonly occurring character of the comic I read several times each day.
same
…wait, you bit his face too?
awwwww
Damn you Willis for making this so cute, now it will be ever sadder when Becky role in the story will end for a while cause I doubt she will stay.
…Because she’s TNT, she’s Dina-Might!
TNT, she’ll win the fight!
A Dina-mo, in Dino-mode
TNT, WATCH HER EXPLOOOOODE!
That means it’s SEXY-TIME!!!!
This is slightly off topic, but why hasnt anyone just said someone might have faked everything in the bible? Some people are pathological liars who have hallucinations, why couldnt one guy have written everything.
Not sure if serious.
Non-serious answer: One guy did, King James.
Serious answer: There’s been a lot of scholarship associated with the bible, from its earliest beginnings, really, and I think they would have spotted such shenanigans. I’m not an expert, but I believe there are stylistic differences between different books, not to mention between the old and new testaments. I mean, never mind the historical evidence that Matthew, Mark, Luke & John were real people, not one guy doing translocation.
Jesus however, was not a real person. Like, Pontius Pilate was real, and as a good law enforcing Roman he recorded everything he did and everyone he executed, and while he did execute plenty of people for being rebels or fanatic cult leaders, he never executed anyone by any variation of any of Jesus’s names for any of Jesus’s alleged crimes. The fact that some named characters in the New Testament have a basis in historical record – according to actual eye witnesses that wrote about them doesn’t change the fact that no-one who ever met this so called Yeshua (Jesus) ever recorded meeting him – This in a time where Rome occupied basically everything in that entire region of the world and recorded everything they did.
Actually the first time Jesus was mentioned in writing was MAYBE 70 years after his alleged death. And the first time he was really regarded as an incarnation of a god was CENTURIES after his death. The average life expectancy of a Jewish male during those times was 27.
27.
So 70 years after Jesus died would be like 3 or 4 generations later. So what? Some disciples great great great grand kid wrote a story that had been passed down that far? Um….In our day and age I can’t every name all of my great great great grandparents. I’m Black and Native, so my ancestors lived in societies that were occupied by tyrants…oh wait….so did the alleged Jesus and his buddies.
My best guess? Well, from a scholarly point of view, the Christian mythology is hardly different from any other mythology. It follows the same patterns, the same story line, and has a VERY recent history and appropriating it’s symbols and traditions from cultures it’s conquered as an attempt to appease the conquered people and keep them from revolting. So. It’s the same as any other religion’s myths. A bunch of myths based loosely on facts that are so far removed from actual history that it’s impossible to prove but also hard to disprove because of the few consistencies that do exist.
Pontius Pilate was real, but casting him as a “good law enforcing Roman” is playing to his Gospel portrayal as an honorable man, which is in stark contrast to the few records we have of him elsewhere, in which he is a petty jackass. The Gospel made Pontius Pilate a good guy to avoid the ire of Rome in the early years of the religion, choosing instead to increasingly point fingers at Jewish people for the death of Christ instead.
And, no, the Romans did not keep complete and meticulous records of their crucifixions. Hell, I don’t think there are records of any crucifixions. But we do know Romans crucified people on the regular. “Jesus doesn’t exist because we can’t find records of his death” is an urban legend that doesn’t withstand scrutiny, but is nonetheless popular because it sounds real.
What we do have historical confirmation of, however, is the existence of Jesus’ brother, James the Just, who was a very important figure of early Christianity in Jerusalem. (But whom Christianity felt was at odds with their preferred doctrinal message, so largely ignored and/or obscured.) James the Just was probably not lying about having a brother who was executed by the state for preaching the downfall of Rome. In those times, that wasn’t exactly an uncommon thing. The only uncommon thing about it is some guy named Paul converted the story into something more palatable to a larger, Pagan audience and it took off.
Jesus existed. That he didn’t is an idea that’s fermented by overreaching teenaged atheists.
Oh jeez I just wanted to ask a simple question and I got Willis to be involved, I wasnt trolling or anything willis, it was a real question I had. Dont hurt me D:
Yeah, but a messianic claimant named Yeshua doesn’t pay the bills, so to speak. It’s not like Mohammed, where the dude’s well attested (if considerably less successful than the Quran says). Yeah, there was a YEshua, but the books written about him by alleged disciples don’t have a lot to do with him.
People don’t talk about a historical jesus to say “A messianic claimant existed”, they say it to talk about the bible’s jesus. It rather feels like saying there’s a Historical Arthur because you found a petty knight named Arthur. Though to be fair, the myths built around Yeshua are considerably larger than the myths around, say, Cao Cao.
*So I can see a logic to discuss the ‘historical jesus’ even though it’s far more removed from the myth than most other historical figures.
Oh right, that area was aramaic. Iesos, I think?
There are a number of things you can feel confident in saying about the historical Jesus, whether through compounded occurrence in the Bible or determined through the criteria of embarrassment. For example, we’re pretty sure he was from Nazareth, was baptized by John the Baptist, and was crucified for insurrection. The same could be determined for the things he’s recorded as saying in them. That’s a hell of a lot more than we have on King Arthur. A more analogous Biblical figure to King Arthur would be King David.
King David had more than the students of his students to attest to him. David had enemies, both within his borders and outside of them. He had allies that talked about them. And what we have for David isn’t great either, it’s just we actually HAVE something for him, unlike the kings that came before him in the Torah. Talking about David’s beliefs outside of the most generic talk of period-Judaism is kind of a wash.
I mean, Arthur was a deliberate choice, in that we searched for a historical Arthur and never found one (go fig, it’s basically myths invented to try to hijack Charlemagne’s thunder; more to the point though, if we happened to find a petty king named Arthur somewhere on the British Isles, the stories would give us a total of jack and shit to work with in discussing Arthur). We can pretty confidently talk about a historical Iesos as a messianic claimant, but there’s not much we can say for sure about his beliefs, and I have no idea where you get the confidence that his teachings were preserved at ALL, much less with accuracy. I mean, I’m pretty sure you know he hung out with the zealots, so I’m not sure why you’d feel so confident iin talking about the bible as his teachings. An enormous chunk (Although not all of it) of it is non-violent acquiescence to temporal power, which is not what messianic claimants tended to do in Judea.
I’m not really clear why we’re discussing the criteria for embarrassment – it’s not embarrassing for anyone to say that ‘the disciples’ accurately conveyed an oral tradition that included their teachers’ words. Also not clear why you’re saying Jesus’ teachings were recorded. Contradictions aside, the simple fact is they were first written by the disciples’ students, not the disciples. Jesus wasn’t recorded as saying shit.
There’s a lot here where you’re missing the mark of what I’m actually saying, particularly with the criteria of embarrassment stuff, and reiterating myself on this stuff is exhausting, so I’ll bow out and say that I’ve been reading material on this constantly for about a decade and so I feel pretty secure in my understandings!
Meh, so do a lot of people. Enjoy though, time’s limited.
My understanding is that James the Just describes himself as a brother of christ, but there’s no distinction in his usage of the term between biological brothers and brothers in priesthood, so he wasn’t necessarily talking about an actual biological connection. There are also early christian sects that believed that Jesus was a fully define being that never had an earthly incarnation, the way Yahweh didn’t, but they still referred to themselves sometimes as brothers of Christ, even though they demonstrably weren’t claiming to be actual brothers of a physical person.
Not saying you’re necessarily wrong, but there are certainly ways that a guy claiming to be Jesus’ brother could be real without Jesus himself actually being real.
He is distinguished from other disciples, in particular from James the son of Zebedee, as “James, brother of the Lord”.
I wasn’t talking about any personal claims of brotherhood from James, but the description of others. If you’re referring to the book of James from the New Testament, I’m not sure that it’s confirmed genuinely his and not written by a nameless fanboy.
Did you check all the variants of Emanuel while you were at it? 😛
That’s actually an interesting collection of fact and misrepresentation you have there. There is a complete lack of direct official record of his existence at the time, but many records were not preserved, so it may not be as significant as you think. It should also be noted that Paul/Saul appeared on the scene while the original disciples were still doing their thing, and as a Roman citizen he left behind plenty of official record. If you deny his historical existence, then you’re raising it to a whole new level. There may or may not be a record of everyone that Pontius Pilate had executed, But then the account goes that he didn’t have him executed. Neither did he choose to interfere, but rather famously washed his hands of the matter, To coin a phrase.
There are letters that various Roman leaders sent to each other shortly after the death of historical Jesus that were preserved and refer to events and some of these are preserved in the British Museum. It’s possible that these were faked somewhere along the way of course, but if you dismiss all the evidence that does exist as faked then your argument based on lack of historic evidence loses some of its force. I have only a third hand account of the letters content, they apparently they don’t read precisely like Christian propaganda. (One contains a reference in passing to what sounds like rumors of a small outbreak of walking dead near Rome.) Likewise Paul’s letters could be completely faked, but if not, his claims for the divine status of a son of God hardly happened centuries later as you claim.. So altogether it sounds to me like you’re just repeating something you read somewhere.
Interestingly, there is some evidence that much later in life Pontius Pilate became an early Christian due to his wife’s influence.
Wilis’s response came in while I was typing. Otherwise I would have probably left it alone.
xD I cant believe so many people(3 actually) posted such long answers to my question
Do you have a source for those Letters from Roman leaders in the British Museum? Not something I’m familiar with and I’d like to look a little deeper.
Admittedly, I’m skeptical.
Skeptical is completely reasonable. And if you have access to the British Museum, I envy you with much envy. Most of my life is in storage, but against the odds I found a page of notes I must have made in the late 70’s or early 80’s. It only mentions Pilate’s letters and that in addition to the original Latin the British Museum has a version in a 6th century Syriac MS and also one in Greek. The name Dr. Tischendorf is in parenthesis but I’m not sure what the context was. Don’t know if that’s enough to help.
I see further down the page I list Josephus as the only historian of the time who mentions Jesus. At this point I have no memory of where that came from and no idea if it’s true.
Check it dorks, from now on I will begin all proclamatory statements with “check it dorks” until I get bored.
That is all.
You might want to rethink that. Referring to someone as a dork may get you an entirely unexpected response, since the term “dork” is also a vulgar reference to both male and female external genitalia — the penis in males; the vulva in females.
It feels like Becky’s addressing us.
“See this, nerdlingers? We’re the real OTP! Dorky can suck an egg!”
Dina is my hero! <3
I do love me some Happy Ending. 🙂
DoA ends here, right?
Only if you stop reading it. Decisions. Decisions.
Except then we would never be able to see if something happens between Danny & Ethan. I doubt it, but I must be sure.
Nope, the buffer watch on the left and the preview panels show there’s lots of fun ahead! But, yeah, I was tempted to stop at the end “Walking with Dina” because of “somebody’s” rep. for whip-lashing good feels into nightmares, but then I would have missed today’s smiles.
Utterly delightful.
Oh honey, he was going to jail anyway. Motherfucker fired a GUN on a college campus, you don’t get away with that. Amazigirl helped catch him faster, but even if he got back home uneventfully the cops would have busted down his door and dragged him off before dinner.
More like dragged out at least one body bag – and that’s assuming that he didn’t have the reprogrammers waiting for him at home or some such.
He seemed pretty determined to take her home to fix her, and if he actually made it back to La Porte then chances are the police would be waiting for him there. Doesn’t seem he really had a plan beyond “bring heathen daughter home”.
Doesn’t change the minimum corpse estimate though.
Becky would have run the second he was distracted, she was only cooperating to get him away from Joyce.
Again, chances are at some point it would have ended with a discharged firearm – whether it was with a potshot at her fleeing, the swat team invading, chances are very much stacked against a non-death outcome.
Awww, and I think the mystery of why Dina was so serious-faced last strip might be solved. She was worried that Becky would be mad at her for not successfully repelling ToeDad. The smile comes back as soon as Becky is overjoyed because Dina tried.
It has to be a wonderful day for Becky despite the traumatic events. Dina fought for her, Joyce came after her, a superhero rescued her. Nobody just left her behind or gave up in the face of ToeDad.
As you say, or, perhaps, Dina was disappointed in herself for being unable to stop Ross in his pursuit of Becky. I so much liked Becky and Dina walking together before Ross found them that I was anxious that something about the episode might have prevented them getting back that happiness together.
Sadly I know of several areas where the judge would have Joyce and Dina arrested for “assaulting their elder”, and would release Toedad and give him adult custody of Becky due to her “obvious mental defects” (=her preferences). Also, Sal would be “encouraged” to move elsewhere and someone like Amazi-Girl would just mysteriously disappear. Their version of history started 6000 years ago and ENDED hundreds of years ago.
What really worries me is why most of what happens in those areas never gets reported on outside those areas.
OTP INTENSIFIES
*screen shakes*
Best couple ever!
Uh, guys?
I don’t know how long it’s been there, and if anyone has already commented on it.
But the title of B6Ch3 is listed in the archive now.
And it’s “When God Closes the Door”.
Joyce is going back home for a bit, so… yeah. Bad things are going to happen.
He opens a window?
I thought it was: “When God closes a door, it’s so he can throw you out of the window.”
That and: “When you see only one set of footpritns, it was then that I kicked your butt into next Tuesday.”
So far, the lightning strikes have only been near misses.
We can only dodge so long. There’s a lot of shoes that will drop soon and things are going to get ugly again soon, if I don’t miss my guess.
So does anyone have actors they see for the characters?
I really can’t see Becky being cast as anyone but Zoé De Grand Maison, myself. She’s done the role of outcast religious person before, and well…
http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMjAwMTM1OTQxNF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNDU4OTY3MTE@._V1_UY317_CR20,0,214,317_AL_.jpg
Dump the make-up, have make up put on a few freckles (or stop covering them up) and cut the hair… yep, yep, yep.
she looks kinda lindsay lohan in a few photos…in a good way! if she can do spunky/punky, i say we give her a shot.
anyone got danny casting suggestions? be nice now…
When I saw her smiling and dancing in Orphan Black as Gracie, I had her pegged as Becky immediately.
My OTP is back together again! Yay! I always feel gooey and melty every time they’re on screen together!